This noon, at twelve, two hundred people gathered in front of the Delegation of the Generalitat de Catalunya in the n ยบ 44 of Madrid's Calle de Alcala to show solidarity with the struggle of drivers and conductors of TMB to get two days off per week and ask speedy resolution of the conflict and the withdrawal of open files.
Convened by CGT and other unions, concentrates deployed four large banners with slogans alluding to the struggle of the bus drivers. In Ecuador the act was read the manifesto and just after a delegation of workers went inside to hand over a letter to Mar Serna, Delegate of Employment of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
To close the ceremony, which lasted about an hour, have involved a representative of the Association of EMT's platform, which has reiterated solidarity with co-TMB and denounced the growing repression of this kind of mobilization around the State and identified with an attempt to eliminate the alternative movements. Then took the microphone Saturnino Mercader, chairman of TMB company that, among other things, stressed that this movement has shifted to the "union freeloaders." "CCOO and UGT, today, do not paint anything in TMB. The Assembly has swept them." The drivers have decided to continue the strike, announcing that begin and end on 3 7. After this day, indefinitely, will continue every Thursday to get two days off per week. Merchant commented that this strike will probably coincide with the EMT, "are parallel battles." According to the chairman of the Works, "all the struggles we have today are the same: we labor repression and police repression, and both have to stop." Merchant stressed that this repression, with special emphasis on shock and injury to workers by the Catalan police, occur "by asking something as simple as two days off per week." Comrade finished by thanking the solidarity shown in this action. "This we will consider in Barcelona," he concluded.
peer interventions have been greeted by shouts like "Everyone in the TMB" or "Long live the struggle of the working class." The event was closed to the style of Barcelona: petardazo final.
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